1906. William is ten years old when his family leaves London for
Barellito, a small Italian fishing village. The quiet of the village
will not last long, however, thanks to the ripples created by the
arrival of William and his family. His own life, too, is about to be
upturned, in this remarkable and wondrous new land where he will find
new southern landscapes, a new kind of liberty, and above all new
friends: Paolo, Nino, and the charming Lisa, united forever by an
extraordinary event and a strange object…